Title: Beware of Iraq’s whipping boys
Author: Nir Rosen
URL: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FB19Ak02.html
Abstract: This article presents information about the Shi’ite Islam’s paradigmatic ritual commemorating its central, epic, narrative, the seventh-century martyrdom of Husain, the third imam, or leader of the Shi’ite community. It discusses the activities of a 26-year-old Najim Abdul Amir, a construction worker and a mudarib, or trainer, instructing up to 60 boys in the correct performance of Shi’ite Islam’s paradigmatic ritual. This article offers deep insight into the religious and political history of the Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq.
